This week's selections were pretty good. And I spread the love around source-wise. One was from the library, one from my e-reader, and one off the unread shelves.
First up...
Lucy March's "A Little Night Magic" is a supernatural chick lit novel. Yeah, I know some people hate the term "chick lit" but I like it so I'm going to use it.
This was a light book with some dark edges and lots of smart and funny quips. I liked that the romance had already started before the book did. The two characters already had a strong friendship established and I thought that base line was set up and then built off of really nicely.
Overall, I enjoyed the book but I thought it could have been tighter. Something just felt a little off and too loose with the plotting and storytelling and I'm not exactly sure what. It was a fun read, and I'll definitely read the next book when it comes out next year, but I'm not sorry I borrowed this one from the library.
"Devil's Bride" by Stephanie Laurens was another $0.99 e-book deal that I had heard good things about. I'm a sucker for a simple classic-style historical romance and that's exactly what this turned out to be. I thoroughly enjoyed it.
The plot is basically: Duke meets classy governess. He pretty much immediately decides that since she's attractive, smart, comes from a noble family, can definitely keep her cool in a sensitive situation, and doesn't appear to be at all intimidated by him... he's totally going to marry her. As soon as he can convince her to say yes (this takes a lot of work on his part). There's a very obvious whodunit murder mystery in the works too but the book is mostly wooing and post-wooing bliss. I found it highly enjoyable.
Also, the classic euphemism-happy historical romance sexy times made me laugh (in a delightfully good way). A lot. My favorite bit was when they're making out at one point and the heroine thinks about how she wants him to "fill the molten void within her" and then a few paragraphs later the hero promises to "make that molten heat inside of you explode." As soon as he said it, my first thought was "How the hell do you know which crazy euphemism she's using inside her head?" Heh. Too funny.
Julie James' "A Lot Like Love" was so very good. Julie James kicks ass. Her books are so slick and fun and they feature smart and sexy professionals who are good at their jobs.
This one involved an heiress/wine entrepreneur and a rough and tumble FBI agent working an undercover operation together. Male love interest, Nick, could be a little jerky at times, but his constant deployment of his patented "don't-fuck-with-me-face" never ceased to make me chuckle. Oh, and he was super adorable on the phone with his mother. That was a definite plus.
The heroine, Jordan, was also great and I especially loved the loving yet sarcastic interactions she had with her family. I am super excited that her "Twitter Terrorist" twin brother is the lead in James' next book. I'm really looking forward to it.
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